Backstage is pleased to announce the immediate availability of two new thesauri for your genre/form matching. Both the RBMS and TGM databases can be added, at no extra cost, to your profile. Please just let your project managers (Jeremy Myntti, Judy Archer) know and we will have it added in time for your next bibliographic processing. Details about each thesauri are below.

RBMS – Rare Books and Manuscript Section

- Association of College and Research Libraries, Division of American Library Association

These thesauri provide standardized vocabulary for retrieving special collections materials by form, genre, or by various physical characteristics that are typically of interest to researchers and special collections librarians, for relating materials to individuals or corporate bodies.

rbbin	binding terms	307 records
rbgenr	genre terms	501 records
rbpap	paper terms	290 records
pri	printing evidence	152 records
rbprov	provenance evidence	82 records
rbpub	publishing evidence	39 records
rbrel	relator terms	71 records
rbtyp	type evidence	130 records

New MARC organization code created for RBMS terms: IlChRBM

Backstage would like to recognize the effort of the following people for helping us obtain and convert the RBMS genre file:

Deborah Leslie, Folger Shakespeare Library

Jim Kuhn, Folger Shakespeare Library

Ryan Hildebrand, University of Texas at Austin

Jason Kovari, University of Mississippi

Stephen Skuce, MIT

Nina Schneider, UCLA

TGM – Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

The Thesaurus for Graphic Materials is a tool for indexing visual materials by subject and genre/format. The thesaurus includes more than 7,000 subject terms to index topic shown or reflected in pictures, and 650 genre/format terms to index types of photographs, prints, design drawings, ephemera, and other categories.

TGM records are no longer maintained as MARC authority records; rather, they are saved as ASCII text and XML files. Backstage converted these two types of files, generating both MARC subject and genre authority records.

gmgpc	genre terms	670 records
lcgtm	subject terms	7,142 records

Backstage would also like to extend a special vote of thanks to Jeremy Myntti for his efforts in working with all parties inside and outside of Backstage to get these databases ready for our clients.

Nate Cothran - nate@bslw.com

Vice President, Automation Services

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